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| Personal background |
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| Hello from Ottawa, Canada. I work as a police officer, and enjoy cycling, astronomy and camping. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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I do think other life exists in the Universe, as the cliche goes "It would be an awful waste of space", if not. I'm not sure it will be discovered in our life-time, given the extreme distances involved within our own, and other galaxies.
Intelligence will probably be discovered first via radio signals, although these signals may be hundreds or thousands of years old by the time they are received. "Conversations' will be extremly slow.
The greatest danger will be to the human ego, we always seem to to think so high of ourselves; it will take some time to adjust to us being just an average, or even inferior, species. Many will feel threatened by this.
I'm not sure what info could be sent via a beacon, that won't be so out-of-date by the time it arrives, it makes us look infantile. Perhaps something cultural, or biological, that is less affected by time.
I'm hoping SETI's distriubuted processing will help us identify intelligence sooner than later. I realize that there are many more intelligent people than me involved in SETI; my only suggestion would be to keep 'looking outside the box'. Our biggest flaw, IMHO, is that we always tend to centre on human experience. Non-human intelligence may be truly alien, and not at all comprehensible to us.
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